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Transitions Healthy Sight For Life Fund

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While the Transitions® Healthy Sight for Life Fund is not currently accepting private donations, you can make a donation to one of the charities we support.

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Annual Charity Grants

Substantial yearly grants to qualified global or regional charitable organizations. Proposals are accepted for the following year on a rolling basis until June 30. Grant decisions will be made by Oct. 1. All applicants will be notified of their grant status at that time.

Local Community Grants

Select one-time grants to benefit local community charities and volunteer efforts. Proposals are accepted and awarded on a rolling basis year-round.

Please carefully read the Proposal Guidelines, Eligibility Requirements and Submission Instructions before submitting your proposals for consideration for either grant category.

Request a Grant

The Transitions® Healthy Sight for Life Fund is currently accepting Grant Request Proposals for its Annual Charity Grants and Local Community Grants.

Annual Charity Grants are substantial yearly grants to qualified global or regional charitable organizations. Proposals are accepted for the following year on a rolling basis until June 30. Grant decisions will be made by Oct. 1. All applicants will be notified of their grant status at that time.

Local Community Grants are select one-time grants to benefit local community charities and volunteer efforts. Proposals are accepted and awarded on a rolling basis year-round.

Please carefully read the Proposal Guidelines, Eligibility Requirements and Submission Instructions before submitting your proposals for consideration for either grant category.

  1. For consideration, all proposals must reflect the Transitions® Healthy Sight for Life Fund Mission and support its Guiding Principles as stated below.

    Help Preserve Healthy Sight for a Lifetime

    Through the Transitions Healthy Sight for Life Fund, we support, on a global, regional and local basis, charitable organizations whose goal is to help create awareness of the need for eye exams, eye protection and the enhancement of visual quality, and who are striving to help eliminate preventable blindness. With the belief that knowledge empowers people, we provide education on the need for healthy sight and the steps people can take to achieve it.
  2. All proposals must be earmarked for projects or programs with a defined scope and specific goals. Unspecified grant proposals will not be considered.
  3. Grants cannot be awarded for capital investments or to solely cover operating or other administrative costs.
  4. While Transitions Optical does support clinical research in eye health as part of the Transitions Partners in Education program, the Transitions Healthy Sight for Life Fund is not currently accepting proposals for research funding.
  5. While Transitions Optical does provide support to schools and educators through its Transitions Partners in Education program, the Transitions Healthy Sight for Life Fund is not currently accepting proposals for scholarship funding.

Annual Charity Grant

  • To be eligible for an Annual Charity Grant, you must be a registered non-profit or not-for-profit organization or association of international, national, or regional scope.
  • Individuals are not eligible for Annual Charity Grants.

Local Community

  • Local Community Grants are open to eyecare professionals and optical laboratories as well as local non-profit, not-for-profit or volunteer groups and associations.
  • Individuals are eligible for Local Community Grants.

Submission Instructions

To submit your proposal for an Annual Charity Grant or a Local Community Grant, please fill out the electronic form below. It is important that your submission include all available contact information.

Please use the space provided under proposal details to describe your specific project proposal. It is not necessary to describe your organization or cause. If you would like to include additional information about your organization or your project, you may attach one additional document to your proposal.

Once you have submitted your proposal, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of receipt.

Transitions Optical will respond to all proposals received - please do not call to check on the status.

Please do not submit more than one proposal simultaneously. You are free to re-submit a proposal or submit a new one if we are unable to fund your original proposal.

For Local Community Grants, please submit your proposal at a minimum of four weeks prior to the date funding is required. For Annual Charity Grants, please submit your proposal by the June 30 deadline.

Transitions Healthy Sight for Life Fund Grant Request Form
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